Find My Blocks
Find My Blocks will search and list all the blocks used across your WordPress site.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.8★ from 51
- Active installs
- 4k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 13 Nov 2024
- Added
- Dec 2019
- Requires WP
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.7.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 131,802
Our analysis
AI-assistedFind My Blocks is a WordPress plugin designed to help you locate specific Gutenberg blocks across your website. It scans posts, pages, and custom post types to find instances of both core and third-party blocks, including synced patterns and template parts.
The plugin allows you to filter search results by block provider and provides insights on usage frequency. It is suitable for users who need to manage and edit blocks efficiently, especially in larger websites with numerous posts and custom types.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users managing multiple blocks across a large site.
What it does well
- ✓Fast search for block locations across the site
- ✓Supports WordPress Full Site Editing and block templates
- ✓Allows safe find and replace of blocks
- ✓Filters found blocks by block provider
- ✓100% free and open source
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on performance settings and configurations
Verdict
Find My Blocks offers a practical solution for locating and managing Gutenberg blocks, making it useful for content-heavy WordPress sites.
From the developer
Morgan Hvidt's own description of Find My Blocks, lightly tidied.
Find My Blocks is a WordPress plugin built to help you find specific Gutenberg blocks on your WordPress website.
🆕 Official site Find My Blocks
🔍 Fast search for block locations
Save your time by scanning your entire WordPress site (including posts, pages and custom post types) to locate instances of WordPress Blocks.
- 📍 Find & replace blocks safely with quick edit and preview links.
- 🧱 WordPress Full Site Editing support. Block Templates & Template parts will be searched.
- ⚡️ Performance settings for low (shared hosting) to high-end hosting.
- 🤝 100% free & open source.
Which blocks can be located?
Find My Blocks will batch loop through your posts (and more) to detect instances of blocks.
- WordPress Core blocks (paragraphs, images, group blocks and so on)
- Blocks added by third-party plugins (Even if they are uninstalled)
- Synced Patterns (Reusable Blocks)
- WordPress template added by your theme, or plugins such as WooCommerce.
- Conditional Blocks with custom visibility settings.
Anything missing? Let us know – our goal is to find every WordPress block.
Quickly identify block types.
- Filter found blocks by their “Block Provider”, narrowing the search results to individual plugins.
- The amount of times a specific block type has been used on your WordPress website.
- The posts/pages that a block has been used on.
- The amount of times a block has been used on a specific post/page.
- Check if the block is a “Synced Pattern (Reusable Block)”.
- Check if the block is a “Nested Block”.
- Check if the block is a “Template”.
How to get started?
Navigate to the Tools -> Find My Blocks Menu inside the WordPress Admin dashboard. You can then set your server performance, which will decide how many posts to scan at a time.
Once it’s done you’ll see all found blocks!
Resources
- Website: Read our guides and tutorials.
- GitHub: Contribute to the plugin.
- @MorganHvidt: Follow Morgan on X (Twitter).